‘Spice Up Your Life’
Spice Girls, Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard
A recent comment by a visiting nephew got me thinking. He implied my books were erotica, and he wasn’t sure he’d want to recommend them as I was his aunty. I told him sex is normal and that I’d like him to recommend my emotive women’s fiction if my romance made him uncomfortable.
Later I received a review on Amazon India for My Heart Sings Your Song, that implied that it was all too racy in the bedroom.
‘A steamy, comforting, curated culinary, cultural cliff-hanger’
‘I’m not normally into steamy romance-type novels (this might be the first I’ve picked up!). The scenes certainly take a non-fiction reader out of her comfort zone! But I also found myself proud (!!) to read these words from such an unconventional source.’
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Emotive Women’s Fiction
Meet my inspiration. He is the reason I wrote my debut novels, My Heart Sings Your Song and Where Have We Come. A tale of a British Asian couple who straddle both cultures, their Gujarati Indian heritage and their British upbringing and deal with the stresses and strain a profoundly disabled child places on their family, friends and their marriage.
When he was born, he was placed briefly on my stomach, and then all hell broke loose. Doctors, nurses, medical equipment brought into the room. I lay in shock, unable to comprehend how a straightforward, no drugs, no stress labour turned into a full medical intervention.
The photograph is of us on day three, the day they took this photograph was the day we held our son for the first time in Hammersmith Neonatal Unit, over 30 years ago. You can see the apprehension of a new mother and the pride and love of a new father on our faces.
When I published Where Have We Come, I knew my book sat on the same shelf as books by Jojo Moyes, Cecelia Ahern and Colleen Hoover are a few, and Emma - Claire Wilson’s debut is worth a read.
They write commercial women’s fiction on emotional themes that may trigger readers, grief, loss, abuse, PTSD and mental health. My books are emotional reads, depicting conflict and prejudices in the South Asian community. They aren’t just for South Asian readers, although my aim is to raise awareness and show how and why the South Asian community deal with the topics. I write about women who can deal with trauma and who spiral out of control. I too write of hope after loss as I strongly believe that our son came to us to help us grow to be the people who we are now.
I’m always looking for new authors who tell stories that are a depiction of realist lives and emotions and Emma-Claire Wilson’s debut novel, This Child of Mine, will be on my must read author list.
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Book Review
Book Blurb
When Stephanie is told she’s pregnant and that she is sick on the same day, she faces an impossible choice…
After trying for a baby for so long, finding out I was pregnant was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. But in the same breath as the news I had been waiting years to hear, the doctor told me I was seriously ill.
This Child of Mine Review - Goodreads
‘Wilson depicts the turmoil of Steph’s choice beautifully, and the story sends you on an emotional journey and just when you believe things can’t get any harder, the story takes a turn for the worst.’
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